US 11,696,777 B2
Compact system used to determine tissue or artifact characteristics
Jonathan Gunn, Chicago, IL (US); Steve McPhilliamy, Chicago, IL (US); Hariharan Subramanian, Mundelein, IL (US); Paul Le Rolland, Chicago, IL (US); Amal Chaturvedi, Chicago, IL (US); Keith A. Grider, Chicago, IL (US); Daniel J. Greene, Chicago, IL (US); Sean Corrigan, Chicago, IL (US); Tomas Matusaitis, Chicago, IL (US); and Marcus Stephen Papadopoulos, Paradise Valley, AZ (US)
Assigned to Briteseed, LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Appl. No. 16/955,675
Filed by Briteseed LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 21, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/067069
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/126633, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/609,746, filed on Dec. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0068856 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/29 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/29 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00526 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2926 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical system comprising:
a tubular shaft having a proximal end and a distal end;
a first jaw and a second jaw pivotally attached at the distal end of the tubular shaft; and
at least one light emitter and at least one light sensor, the at least one light emitter being disposed along a surface of the first jaw and the at least one light sensor being disposed along a surface of the second jaw with the surface of the first jaw facing the surface of the second jaw, each of the at least one light emitter and at least one light sensor coupled to at least one lead,
the first and second jaws each having an inwardly facing surface, the inwardly facing surface of the first jaw disposed transverse to the surface of the first jaw along which the at least one light emitter is disposed and the inwardly facing surface of the second jaw disposed transverse to the surface of the second jaw along which the at least one light sensor is disposed, and the inwardly facing surfaces define at least in part one or more clearances therebetween in which the at least one lead coupled to the at least one light emitter and the at least one lead coupled to the at least one light sensor are disposed,
wherein a spacer is disposed in a space between the inwardly facing surfaces of the first and second jaws, the inwardly facing surfaces and the spacer defining the one or more clearances in which the at least one lead coupled to the at least one light emitter and the at least one lead coupled to the at least one light sensor are disposed.